Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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